This three part series seems to speed though the years and fails to really tell any sort of story at all. It's as if someone just wanted to string together a sequence of random events that took place in the Thatcher era in the hope that a story would emerge. Maybe the novel on which the series is based actually told the story in greater detail, and in a more coherent fashion. However, with the series, dialog is sparse, sequences are non-linear and the episodes appear to be in a race against time to get it all out in the 3 episodes. That doesn't happen. The acting is good, but the story is told in a superficial, cliched and rushed format!
Review of The Line of Beauty
